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Nov 10, 2015

Against Blank Slates

Suzanne Fischer

Steam rises from the grates at night.See the light through. See

the photographers snatch the lighted clouds.“We look forward to fighting these charges”

It turns on the line in the slush, the tentativeclaws in the inch between the door

and the floor, nothing rises for long. Snapshotspotters webbing the city where no lights

remain and no plows venture but the snowis not untouched because we are alive.

What are these? “The woundsI have received at the house of my friends.”

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Suzanne Fischer is a historian and writer living in Oakland.

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